'Professional' Yeovil edge out Swansea

By Nicholas Harling

12:01AM GMT 03 Jan 2005

Swansea City (0) 0 Yeovil Town (0) 2

The odds against Swansea being able to celebrate their move into a new stadium next season with improved status lengthened slightly with this defeat. But they could still be in contention, according to Gary Johnson, the visiting manager.

Johnson could afford to be generous. His team have just won for the seventh game running to go joint top, opening up a four-point gap over Swansea. More importantly Yeovil looked the part. "We had to keep an 11,000 crowd quiet by putting on a good away performance," Johnson said. "We had to do the right things. Professionalism was the key word."

From their excellent goalkeeper Chris Weale to marksmen Andy Stolcers and Phil Jevons, Yeovil had all the key figures. They also had all the luck. The gale-force wind which was to their advantage from the start had blown itself out by the second half.

Lee Trundle continued, nevertheless, to fire in most of Swansea's shots but Yeovil remained the superior unit.

As a spectacle, the game fell short of last season's thriller, won 3-2 by Swansea, but that mattered little to Yeovil who scored both their goals in the last 10 minutes.

The Latvian, Stolcers curled one in with his right foot from near the left touchline before Jevons showed why he is the division's top scorer with a blistering angled shot in added time.